Osiyo Members and Council,

     We need to go out and ask people to donate their old cars, trucks, buses and everything else to our tribe. There is a school in Seminole County Florida that runs off of the donations of old cars, trucks, buses and anything else anyone wishes to donate to them. This school sits on one hundred acres of land and is very well ran, it has been there for as long as I can remember, you hear their ads on the radio asking for donations to their schools. Some they repair and sell, others they fix up and use for the school, and some are sold for the metal in them. We must use our heads the same way as they do, we must come up with the ideas of ways to make the money for our tribe and people.

      Once we get the land, and get the town started, we can hold a powwow two times each year to bring in money for our people, but until then we must use our heads, this means everyone, there are no free rides, this takes the help of all our people to do.

     It doesn't matter if someone is in a wheelchair, there is still something that he or she can do, even if their legs don't work the brain will work and think, and has ideas that will help. That is why I say there are no free rides, because everyone has something they can do, if it is no more than just thinking of things to do.     

      I once had a friend who had an illness where he was over 600 pounds, but his brain was so great that he knew more about computers. He worked for the government programming their Government Ship Computers. Jeff knew more about a computer than most people alive today, and there was nothing he could not do with a computer, but Jeff died a few years back. Up to his death Jeff was not able to get out of his bed and was in a nursing home, but he was always there for this tribe, and was able to fix all of our problems with our computers. So when someone tells me what they cannot do, I tell them I do not wish to hear that copout. Our Headmother is in a wheelchair, but she works 18 hours a day from that chair; you will find the same with Clan Chief Kermit who is sick also but puts is many long hours working for his people and tribe; Clan Mother Michele has very bad headaches but works very long hours on the website and as Clan Mother for her people. We have many people with many different problems but they step up or roll up to the job to be done, you will never hear them say they will not, because they are Chickamauga Cherokee and it is in our Blood to get the job done at any cost.

     Yes I get upset when someone tells me what they cannot do; the only person who said you cannot do anything is yourself.

    When I was 17 years old I took very sick with an illness call Syringomyelia; the Doctors told me I would not live more than 4 years or less. On Tuesday May 18, 2010 I will turn 70 years old, and yes I still have Syringomyelia from which I could fall dead at any old time, but I am not going to sit around waiting on it to happen, if and when it comes I will be out working for my people, not waiting on a handout from someone else.

     We have many good people in this tribe, the last count was over 4,380 of them and everyone has to pull his own load if we are going to get this job done.

     I know we can do it; I have never let anything get in my way of getting the job done. That is what makes us Chickamauga Cherokee and Creek Native Americans, join me in this fight to bring our people home. Always walk with Yowa.

Wado

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